Random Sketches and Wandering Thoughts: Or, What I Saw in Camp, on the March, the Bivouac, the Battle Field and Hospital, While with the Army in Virginia, North and South Carolina, During the Late Rebellion. With a Historical Sketch of the Second Oswego Regiment, Eighty-first New York State V. I.; a Record of All Its Officers, and Roster of Its Enlisted Men; Also, an AppendixA. Herrick, 1866 - 324 Seiten |
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... Corps , this point being nearly midway from Hilton Head to Beaufort . St. Helena Island is some sixteen miles long and extends from Beaufort to the ocean , which point is termed Landsend . On this point is situated Fort Beauregard ...
... Corps , this point being nearly midway from Hilton Head to Beaufort . St. Helena Island is some sixteen miles long and extends from Beaufort to the ocean , which point is termed Landsend . On this point is situated Fort Beauregard ...
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... corps played Hail Columbia , after which the Chaplain made a few appropriate remarks on the war and its prospects . The exercises closed with Yankee Doodle . At two o'clock we sat down in a beautiful pine WANDERING THOUGHTS . 107.
... corps played Hail Columbia , after which the Chaplain made a few appropriate remarks on the war and its prospects . The exercises closed with Yankee Doodle . At two o'clock we sat down in a beautiful pine WANDERING THOUGHTS . 107.
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... corps played the Star Spangled Banner , when the flag was brought forward and Captain Ballard made the following presentation remarks : 66 Colonel , Officers and Soldiers of the 81st Regiment : " The morning I left home for the regiment ...
... corps played the Star Spangled Banner , when the flag was brought forward and Captain Ballard made the following presentation remarks : 66 Colonel , Officers and Soldiers of the 81st Regiment : " The morning I left home for the regiment ...
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... corps played the sunset retreat , to the tune of Sweet Afton . The scene was beautiful , the music most charming , and when its last echo had died far away amid the lofty cedars and twining woodbine of Dismal Swamp , we returned to our ...
... corps played the sunset retreat , to the tune of Sweet Afton . The scene was beautiful , the music most charming , and when its last echo had died far away amid the lofty cedars and twining woodbine of Dismal Swamp , we returned to our ...
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... Corps is rendezvoused at this place , at Gloucester Point . On the opposite side of the river lays the 10th Army Corps , which has just arrived from the Department of the South , where they have been for the last year hammering at the ...
... Corps is rendezvoused at this place , at Gloucester Point . On the opposite side of the river lays the 10th Army Corps , which has just arrived from the Department of the South , where they have been for the last year hammering at the ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
18th Army Corps Albany Andersonville arrived battle field battle of Cold Beaufort beautiful Benjamin F bivouaced boat brigade camp captured Chaplain Charles Charles H Chowan river Cold Harbor Colonel colors command companies dead distance duty Edward Eighty-First New York Eighty-First Regiment enemy February 19 feel feet fight fire flag FOREST Fortress Monroe friends George George W guns Henry horses hospital hundred James river John Joseph July June land Major ment miles Morehead morning moted mustered negroes night North Carolina Northwest Landing November 30 officers ordered Oswego passed Petersburg picket prisoners Promoted from Sergeant promoted to Captain ranks rebel rebellion received in action regi returned Richmond sail Second Lieutenant Seven Pines shore soldiers soon South sundown Surgeon Swamp tents to-day took transports trees troops Union Veteran Virginia Volunteers White William H woods Yorktown
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Seite 53 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
Seite 57 - Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore j upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan — Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoflined, and unknown.
Seite 111 - He saw the lake, and a meteor bright Quick over its surface play'd — " Welcome," he said,
Seite 57 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Seite 102 - For right is right, since God is God ; And right the day must win ; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin ! FREDERIC WILLIAM FABER.
Seite 189 - The mother who conceals her grief While to her breast her son she presses, Then breathes a few brave words and brief, Kissing the patriot brow she blesses...
Seite 7 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Seite 185 - A river of light on the welkin blue. The moon looks down on old Cronest ; She mellows the shades on his shaggy breast, And seems his huge gray form to throw In a silver cone on the wave below...
Seite 151 - On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Seite 183 - Nathan Palmer, a lieutenant in your King's service, was taken in my camp as a Spy — he was tried as a Spy — he was condemned as a Spy — and you may rest assured, Sir, he shall be hanged as a Spy." " I have the honour to be, &c. "ISRAEL PUTNAM. rt His Excellency Governor TRYON.